Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-24
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
A "PinafOre" revival is in progress.
Wilson Barrett has become an Elk.
Sarah Bernhardt is forty-One years old.
Boston will probably have a new theater.
Dick Humes will star next seafOn in n
new comedy.
Fanny Davenport is playing the New
| England circuit.
Harry Lacy new play is called "ANOble
Convict"
Dellinger's opera, Lorraine" made a
great hit in Chicago.
"Ruddygore" is appreciated by the phil
OsOphic BOstOnians.
Janauschek will prolong her season until
the middle of July.
Edwin Booth will close his season at
Kansas City on April 30.
1t is said that Sardou is writing play
| for Fanny Davenport.
Arthur Rehan has cleared SIS 600 on
Nancy 81 Co" this season.
English mananers are fighting shy Just
now of American dcbutantcS.
Duff 5 company in "a Trip to Africa"
have caught the New York public.
Tony Harris new play is called 1.-THE
Blarney Stone" not ''DonnybrOOk.
JoSeph'TJefierson may go to England
next fall to play rip Van Wrinkle"
Emily Soldene will head the Lille Hall
BurlGSque Company next season.
Bernharit now takes her way westward,
closing June in San Francisco.
Mile. Alala Ramleh, pianiste to the
Khedive Of Egypt, is playing in New
York.
John A. Mackey will star next season
under the management OF Rice & Dixey.
"Bally Boreen" is the name of the new
play in which T. J. FarrOn will star next
season.
Edwin Booth is said to have purchased
valuable estate in Southern California.
Fritz Emmett recklessly acknowledges
that he is responsible for Sweet ViOlets, !"
Henry Chanirau appeared in Boston for
the first time last Monday night in ''The
OctOroOn."
"Erminie" reached its 300th night at
the New York Casino last week. 1t will
run all summer.
Anna Boyle and her husband J. W.
Summers, will star in a new play called
He next season.
William Hanlou goes to Europe to Sc
cure new people and novelties for Fan
taSma" next season.
COurtice Pounds, the English tenor, has
been engaged by Rudolph ArOnson for the
Casino company.
Patti will give twenty performances of
opera at Her Maiesty'S Theatre, London,
in May, June and July.
Wile-Will You take me to the opera to-
night, dear?
Husband-YeS, 90 and undrcss.
A comic opera by w. d. HOwells, "a
Sea Change; or, Loves StOwaway," will he
published by TicknOr * Co.
The National Opera Company managed
to reach San Francisco and sang to a crowd
ed house on Tuesday night.
Much interest is manifested in the forth
coming production of "Dr Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde. by Richard Mansfield.
Fanny Davenport will probably have the
American rights in the new drama which
SardOu is writing for Bernhardt.
Henry Irving is at the head of a move
meut to establish ShakeSpearean library
and museum Mt Stratford-on- Avon.
1t is reported that Wilson Barrett's
O., IL I Al
for him by the time of his approaching re-
turn.
Henry f. Abbey goes to Europe on
May 18th. With him will sail Nine. Pat
ii, Nine. Scalchi and Sigs. Guile, Del
Puente, Vicini and Santille. Nine. Patti
will give series of concerts on the CONT
nent, and it is rumored the firm of Abbey,
SchOetfel IL Grau have had renewal of
PATHS contract for three years.
w. II. Gillette has cleared $4,000 on
his play, Held by the Enemy" in this
country, and it is an immense success in
London.
Denman Thompson and "The Old Home
stead have passed the one hundredth per
tormanee at the FOurteeth Street Theatre,
New York.
Miss Eastlake, Wilson Barrett's leading
lady, refuses to have herself photographed
as Helle in ''ClitO," because of the un-
pleasant character of the role.
Eugene Field, of the Chicago Nerrs. has
composed the first act of a musical COM
edy, written for Dixey, and which is to be
called 'Our Family Doctor"
]. C. Duff has purchased the exclusive
right to this country of Audran's opera.
The GraSshOpper and the Ant" now
nearing its 3O0th night in Paris.
Geraldine Ulmar has accepted an engage
ment from D'0yly Carte for the SAVOY
Theater, London, and goes to England
with the "RuddygOre" company.
ChaS E. Power, Modieska's advance
agent, was the author Of the cruel canard
that Miss Fortescue was to marry Marcus
Mayer. Forty hates Mayer like poison.
The Boston Globe talks of an Evangelipe
revival When the public has been
given brief rest on this chestnut. il viii
be time enough to talk Of revival.